Example sentences of "[pron] [be] in this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I no more say who I am in this case than I say I 'm off to my wife 's right in the lost-in-cloud case . |
| 2 | This is one illustration of the process which Bartlett ( 1932 ) called ‘ turning round on one 's own schemata ’ — ‘ I am in this state therefore this must be so ’ rather than the direct retrieval from a store . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , as long as I am in this world I remain a sinner , still capable of letting him down . |
| 4 | But it 's kind of a shame , because I 'm only one element of blackness that you can see on television , and I 'll tell you , if I 'd been a kid and seen someone like me on telly , I 'd be a hell of a lot happier about the way I am in this world . ’ |
| 5 | Our recruitment to English ( and it is with English that I am in this paper principally concerned ) was again untypical . |
| 6 | To me , that record was like , ‘ Okay , I 'm in this band , we 've sold thirty million records or whatever it was , but do I deserve this success ? ’ |
| 7 | I 'm in this room , and it 's totally dark . |
| 8 | He went up there this year , I was up , this is true on God 's , I 'm in this chair he said , come on I 'll I 'm going now I 'm gon na get my , I had to go I had to go and get Rififi , a filly called Rififi I did . |
| 9 | That was the whole object of my being in this place . |
| 10 | I was in this bunk , in this boat , this little cabin cruiser that belonged to God-knows-who , and the bastard who 'd stolen my dreams was in the other bunk , just along there . |
| 11 | I dyed my hair every colour under the sun , and I was in this all-women band , we wore lots and lots of make-up and these really baggy dresses in wild colours , which covered our whole bodies — we all dressed the same . |
| 12 | Again I was making no contact with the flying control and as I did not have a WT operator I could not use my wireless set to inform the station that I was in this predicament . |
| 13 | ‘ I was in this lesson and two or three of my mates were messing about , and I was sat across the other side of the classroom and someone chucked a piece of chalk at the teacher and then started shouting his mouth off . |
| 14 | So yeah erm so erm tt er yeah so oh that reminds me I think I may have left something in the lecture theatre I was in this morning , oh my God it was a letter from somebody yes I have , oh shit ! |
| 15 | It was while I was in this slough of despond that my publisher rang to ask if I would like to read a manuscript that needed transforming into a readable book before it could be published . |
| 16 | Whereas with still photographs — I was in this situation for maybe two hours and I shot maybe one or two rolls of film . |
| 17 | I was in this club up in London and she just thought it 'd be really funny . |
| 18 | ‘ The last time I was in this room , ’ Samantha reminisces , ‘ me and Gail were funking each other senseless . |
| 19 | And er so while I was in this shop I I sold this chap five hundred bundles of fire wood you see ? |
| 20 | " I was in this office , was n't I ? |
| 21 | But then when you do peel them away , whether you can have a potentiality , like the when talked about he talked about either side of his face timeless void that you had to see the limit of it so that you could have erm that that I was in this body and there 's something about this body that I 'm going to go back into the body and then that could differentiate perhaps . |
| 22 | Then one day , I was in this car with some blokes , and one of them said , ‘ Have you heard about this band , with a really good one-legged woman bass player ? ’ |
| 23 | One of the 20 to 2,000 facts you and I did n't know about Quisling which are in this book is that he was a lifelong bigamist . |
| 24 | Not only was he going to be absolutely furious about her being in this police station , but she dreaded having to tell her cousin about it too . |
| 25 | Interestingly , in masers , the first electromagnetic wave devices for which equations of the Lorenz type were developed , the problem was that y " in the then best-available cavities was so large compared to y and I " that 2C ( which is in this limit ) was again impossibly high . |
| 26 | So basically you have to remove this silicon which was in this impurity . |
| 27 | However , locally there are things we can do er in terms of trying to improve the kind , er the amount of support available er to er young people and single people in general , who are in this predicament . |
| 28 | ‘ How long have you been in this field ? ’ |
| 29 | It is helpful if the speaker has good articulation ( crisp consonants ) and is able to phrase sentences so that the key word or subject does not depend on a high frequency — for example , instead of saying ‘ Do you know Sussex ? ’ ( key word Sussex ) , they could say ‘ Have you been in this part of the world before ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ How long have you been in this job ? ’ |